Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist

Meeting point

Where

For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM ENGLISH TOUR FROM ROME participants This option includes round trip train tickets from Rome to Naples. Once in Naples, the meeting point is across the street from the Naples central station, at Starhotels Terminus. Your tour guide will hold an Askos Tours sign., For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM ENGLISH TOUR FROM SORRENTO participants This option includes transportation from Sorrento. The meeting point is near the fountain of Piazza Angelina Lauro Square in Sorrento. Your representative will hold an Askos Tours sign for easy identification., For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM ENGLISH TOUR FROM NAPLES participants This option includes transportation from Naples. The meeting point is outside Starhotels Terminus, opposite Naples Central Station. Your tour guide will hold an Askos Tours sign for easy identification., For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM WALKING TOUR participants This option excludes transportation. The meeting point is at the Pompeii Ruins entrance, PORTA MARINA INFERIORE, in Piazza Esedra Square. Look for our staff holding an Askos Tours sign for easy identification. · Open in Google Maps

Departure

13 start times between 06:00 and 10:30 daily; scheduled year-round (operator schedule, seats confirmed at checkout)

Return

This activity ends back at the meeting point

Pickup

Hotel pickup only on 1 of 4 options (Tour from Sorrento)

Operator

Askos Tours; booking and payment are completed on Viator

1. 1
   Basilica

   Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.

   15 min
2. 2
   Foro de Pompeya

   Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.

   10 min
3. Via dell’Abbondanza

   Walk through the main street of Pompeii.

   Pass by, no stop
4. 4
   The house of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents15 min
5. 5
   In the granary you will see marble tables and baths for fountains that adorned the entrances of houses and some casts of victims of the eruption as well as that of a dog and a tree15 min
6. 6
   Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane)

   These occupy a vast area between the Brothel lane, the Holconius crossroads and the Via Stabiana. They represent the oldest thermal complex in the city.

   15 min
7. 7
   Lupanar

   Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.

   15 min
8. 8
   The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii15 min
9. 9
   Odeon - Teatro Piccolo

   Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii.

   15 min
10. 10
    Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii15 min
11. 11
    After the visit of Pompeii, continue to Herculaneum together with your archaeologist guide, following the transportation method included in your selected option:

    From Naples, Sorrento, or Rome: travel with the guide by modern minibus directly to the Herculaneum archaeological site. From Pompeii: reach Herculaneum with your guide using the included Circumvesuviana train ticket (about 30 minutes + 10-minute walk). A quick lunch break is available before the transfer (own expense). Arrival in Herculaneum: Upon arrival, the guide leads the group directly to the Ticket Office of the Herculaneum ruins. You may access it as follows: By minibus (Naples, Sorrento, Rome options): direct drop-off near the entrance. By train (Pompeii option): a short 10-minute walk from Ercolano Scavi station.

    1h · Admission included
12. 12
    The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle10 min
13. 13
    La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo

    M. Nonius Balbus was the city's major benefactor restoring and building many public buildings. On his death he was made patron and feted with many honours, detailed in the long inscription on his funeral altar.

    10 min
14. 14
    College of the Augustales

    It is thought that the building was a centre of the cult of the Emperor Augustus and the headquarters of the Collegium Augustalium (or possibly even the local curia).

    10 min
15. 15
    The house possibly belonged to one of the town's leading benefactors, Marcus Nonius Balbus and is somewhat unusual in that it has its own private access to the adjoining Suburban Thermae to the south10 min
16. 16
    Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno

    It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.

    10 min
17. 17
    House of the Skeleton

    The House of the Skeleton probably the aggregation of three smaller buildings, derives its name from the discovery of human remains in a second floor room in 1831.

    15 min
18. 18
    Central Thermae

    The Central Thermae were built around the beginning of the 1st century AD and were divided, as was then the common practice, into men's and women's baths, each with their own separate entrances.

    10 min
19. 19
    The House of the Black Hall is one of Herculaneum's more luxurious mansions

    The house has a monumental entrance which still retains the carbonised remains of the doorposts and lintel.

    15 min
20. 20
    Casa Sannitica

    The house has an arrangement that was typical of the Samnites (an ancient people of the Sabine race who occupied this mountainous part of central Italy). The splendid atrium is skirted by a gallery with Ionic columns. The rooms are decorated with frescoes.

    15 min
21. 21
    Casa del Bel Cortile

    This is one of the most original houses in Herculaneum. It has a courtyard with a stairway and a stone balcony instead of an atrium.

    10 min
22. 22
    House of the Grand Portal

    Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.

    10 min

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